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Comment by brod | Hacker News Reader

the only reason to use spaces over tabs is if your tab key broke and you can't map it to a double-tap space (yeah, I did that once). /thread

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> map it to a double-tap space

How do you do that?

In vim, adding the following to your .vimrc should do it:

    inoremap <Space><Space> <Tab>

Or just `set expandtab`...

That would be more like

  inoremap <Tab> <Space><Space>

The request was: when I press two spaces, I want a tab character to be inputted. I agree that if you want `n` spaces when the tab key is pressed, you should use `expandtab` and `shiftwidth`.

Ah, quick/lazy reading. Sorry.

Of course now my question is why in the seven hells would you want that mapping??

The premise was that the tab key was broken.

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